Barter Theatre 2013 Spring Repertory
- Submit Photo / Resume for NYC Appointments
(Abingdon, VA)
LORT; $630/week, + housing, 1 wk pd vacation, gym membership and RT Transportation
Producing Artistic Director: Richard Rose
Managing Director: Jeremy Wright
Casting: Paul Russell Casting
1st rehearsal: On or about 1/20/13. 1st Performance: 3/5/13. Last Performance: 5/12/13
HALF A WORLD AWAY – World Premiere
Director: Tricia Matthews. Writer: Ruth Tyndall Baker
UNNECESSARY FARCE
Director: Nick Piper. Writer: Paul Slade Smith
LITTLE WOMEN
Director: Katy Brown. Writer: Marisha Chamberlain
NYC auditions will be held on December 17, by appointment only.
Seeking submissions from Actors' Equity Members only for these auditions.
For consideration, email or mail picture and resume to:
Paul Russell Casting
22 Saint Luke’s Place
Montclair, NJ 07042
BarterCasting2013@gmail.com
NOTE: Mark envelope with role and title of the project, and include “AEA Submission”
Audition material available at PaulRussell.net.
NOTE: Barter Theatre, celebrating its 80th Anniversary Season, is a repertory theater with two stages. Actors hired will perform in repertory as a company member.
SEEKING:
YOUNG LEADING MAN
With humor. Plays two roles in repertory which range from 18 to 25, Caucasian or African-American.
- Eric Sheridan in UNNECESSARY FARCE: A young police officer, somewhat bookish, who is often even keeled but finds himself out of his element when called upon to express his feelings for a woman, lie to his boss, disguise himself as someone else and stand up for himself to an armed mobster—while not wearing any pants.
- Shawn in HALF A WORLD AWAY. 18. Energetic, athletic high school basketball star who loves the game as much as he does flirting with girls. Affable, charming with a good sense of humor. He encourages his best friend from Burma (Than) to participate more in basketball but finds Than is hard to persuade.
YOUNG ACTRESS
Early 20s. Plays the following:
- Mya in HALF A WORLD AWAY. 17 years old. Burmese. (Seeking actress any ethnicity who can believably pass as Burmese / Asian-Pacific.) She has lived in America all her life and is more ‘American’ than the rest of her family. Extremely intelligent as well as attractive. She devours knowledge eagerly while at heart she is a romantic that can be swept up by a poet’s prose.
- Billy Dwyer Understudy in UNNECESSARY FARCE: Young cop. Excitable and entirely unthreatening she seemingly lacks every skill necessary for police work but is eager to succeed as she seems destined to fail.
MATURE ACTRESS
50s +. To play the following:
- Grandma Cho-Cho: 60s+. Burmese (Seeking actress any ethnicity who can believably pass as Burmese / Asian-Pacific.). The remaining matriarch of the Chan family. She tries to hold onto and maintain traditional Burmese traditions and values while struggling to understand the foreignness of Indiana. A joyous and fun spirit with an earth-mother soul. Quietly wise.
Actress hired will also perform either of the two following roles:
- Mary Meekly the Mayor's wife in UNNECESSARY FARCE: Seems to be unfailingly sweet but she is the clever mastermind and power behind a devious scheme.
- Hannah (the housekeeper) in LITTLE WOMEN: a dedicated matriarchal servant.
